Michigan Business Travel Association Meeting – Wednesday, May 1, 2013

•  10:00am - 10:30am - Registration & Networking
•  10:30am - 12:00pm - Global Competency – How to Thrive, not Just  Survive, in the Global Marketplace

 
Presenter: Mary Beth Lamb - Global Performance Improvement Consultant
“Curious Minds” 
 
Mind the Gap:  How to Thrive, not Just Survive, in the Global Marketplace
In today's chaotic global marketplace, bridging cultural and language gaps can mean the difference between success and failure.   Savvy businesspeople know that by developing cultural competency they can win more business and exceed customer expectations.
 
In this lively, interactive presentation you’ll learn how to: 

Build profitable, long-term relationships faster and more effectively worldwide

Communicate and negotiate successfully across cultural and language barriers
Leverage current global best practices to exceed customer expectations
Build and lead virtual team tips to maximize productivity and minimize costs.
 
As a result you’ll grow your business and brand in the constantly changing world marketplace.
 
Mary Beth Lamb
Mary Beth has spent 20 years helping professionals in 20 industries and on five continents achieve peak performance and fulfillment across language, organizational, and cultural differences. Lamb is an internationally known keynote speaker on intercultural management, leadership, cross-cultural mergers and acquisitions, multicultural sales and service, and virtual teaming.
 
Mary Beth built and sold two global competency consulting businesses and served as a senior consultant at two leading human performance improvement companies.  She also lived and worked throughout Europe and North Africa as a global communications consultant and journalist for seven years.
 
Mary Beth most recently contributed to a new book Global Women Healers, which was published in 2010.  She co-authored the acclaimed business book Do’s and Taboos Around the World for Women in Business, which has also been published in China. She is also the author of and subject matter expert for many articles on cultural competency.
 
For the last 13 years Mary Beth has been an adjunct faculty member of the University of Minnesota’s Carlson School of Management Executive Development Center where she specializes in organizational cultural competency and global leadership.
 
This is her fifth year at the University of St. Catherine Leadership Institute, where she lectures on women in global leadership.  Next fall Mary Beth will also teach a graduate school course of her own design on Virtual Team Leadership.
 
The state of Minnesota honored Lamb as a 2009 Minnesota Women of Influence because of her passion, values, and commitment to making a positive difference in Minnesota, the U.S. and the global community.
 
Lamb has lived and worked on five continents where she learned German, Spanish and Portuguese.  She is a member of the Society for Intercultural Education Training and Research and volunteers at several multicultural community organizations in Minneapolis, where she lives.

Contact Information:

Mary Beth Lamb

Consultant/Speaker/Facilitator – Global Performance Improvement

001.952.240.5592

[email protected]

•  12:00pm - 12:15pm - Break
•  12:15pm - 1:15pm - Lunch
•    1:15pm - 2:00pm - MBTA Meeting
•    2:00pm – Adjourn - Meeting Prize Drawing

Thank you to our 2013 Annual Sponsors!